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Rare Pair Ceramic Screen Holders in Rabbit Form, Meiji
February 2015 Auction by Far East Asian Art

These two beautifully modeled Japanese stoneware hares have special slots cut from their back sides for the sole purpose of holding each end of a Japanese folding screen (“byobu”) to keep it weighted on the floor. Meiji period, ca. 1880. A two character signature mark “Koshun” is impressed into each of the unglazed bases. Both rabbits are finished in a rich creamy off white glaze with very fine overall crackling, and there is a firing hole in the slot...
Bid 175.00
No Reserve
03/26 11:56 EDT